Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Just before the weekend, thanks to your continued pressure, the
Senate rejected an extension of the deceptively named and much abused
Patriot Act. Please continue speaking out because they are going to
try against to push this outrage through again on May 31st.

Sign your "I Object!" Citizen’s Objection to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and your U.S. Senators letting them know you object to ANY extension of the NSA's massive illegal surveillance state - including the phony "reforms" in the House-passed USA FREEDOM Act.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

In The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies author Jon E. Lewis does what most books of this sort try to do, which is present a point-counter-point overview of conspiracy topics. Lewis does present some goods points and sources regarding 9/11 truth material, but favors the non-conspiracy view based on incorrect information so I thought I'd respond to a few things.

1. "NIST's findings are supported by a whole range of independent researchers."

Even if the flawed argument of ‘strength in numbers’ is to be seriously
considered, the comparison should actually be between the AE911Truth
petition signers and those who have publicly supported the official
story - after studying the evidence for controlled demolition. The
latter group only consists of the several dozen engineers that created
the NIST WTC reports, along with a handful of various professionals who
have openly advocated NIST’s claims and dismissed those of AE911Truth.
This total pales in comparison to the 2,340 architects and
engineers who are currently calling for an independent
investigation of the destruction of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.

2. "What the controlled-demolition hypothesis fails to take into account is the aviation fuel carried by the planes"

PM [Popular Mechanics]
... quotes WTC assistant structural engineer Leslie Robertson as
stating that the Towers were only designed to take the impact of a Boeing 707, but did
not take into consideration the fires that would be produced by the jet fuel.
After 9/11, Robertson stated, “I don’t know if we considered the fire damage that would
cause” (pg. 31).

However, someone evidently did consider that problem, and that someone was John
Skilling, the original WTC lead engineer. When interviewed in 1993, Skilling told the
Seattle Times that:

“We looked at every possible thing we could think of that could happen to the
buildings, even to the extent of an airplane hitting the side... Our analysis
indicated the biggest problem would be the fact that all the fuel (from the
airplane) would dump into the building. There would be a horrendous fire. A lot
of people would be killed. [But] the building
structure would still be there.”

Although PM mentions John Skilling briefly in their book, they make no mention of this
statement. Apparently, PM felt no ne
ed to quote the lead WTC engineer on his views
about the structural stability of the Towers.

911myths
.com, Debunking911.com, and RKOwens4 do not even acknowledge
Skilling’s
existence, much less mention this statement.

It’
s important to point out here that the paper
Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of
Other Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC,
also
by
Adam
T
aylor
,
proves the following conclusion. If you
think not, you let us know.

When we recognize how much fuel actually remained in the buildings, we can instantly
see how ludicrous it is to compare the Towers to these other steel structures
[that have
collapsed due to fires]
. How can it possibly be justifiable to compare the Towers, which
each had only about 3000 gallons of jet fuel remain on the fire floors, to structures like
the Mumbai High Platform, which likely had over 1,000,000 gallons of oil to fuel the
fires, or the Interstate 580, which had 8600 gallons of gasoline fueling the fires below it?
Likewise, the heat from these fires has been greatly disputed. As we have already seen,
NIST has no evidence of high temperatures in either building. Their estimates of 482 ºF
as the highest temperature the steel in the buildings reached is consistent with estimates
of the maximum temperatures reached by the jet fuel fires.

3. "Demolition experts have also weighed on on NIST's side."

By my count there are eleven people with demolition expertise questioning 9/11 vs two who are speaking out in support of the official 9/11 story.

One of the individuals speaking out in support of the official story also happens to be in charge of the demolition company who got the contract to clean up ground zero and one of his former employees is among the demolition experts who supports the 9/11 truth movement.